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  • How Lazy Millennials Are Hurting Whole Foods

    How Lazy Millennials Are Hurting Whole Foods0

    I drove by the new Whole Foods grocery store in my community the other day. It’s big, it’s hip-looking, and it offers much better parking than its former location. But according to a recent Washington Post article, the perks of this new store may be costing Whole Foods more than they would have liked. In

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  • How Latin is Helping Inner City Youths Strive and Succeed

    How Latin is Helping Inner City Youths Strive and Succeed0

    In the last few years, there has been a resurgent interest in making Latin a part of the school curriculum. After all, the benefits seem too good to pass up, particularly those which show that Latin boosts reading, math, and science scores. It is likely these benefits that attracted a Philadelphia inner city charter school,

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  • How Last Night’s Debate Proved the Dumbing Down of America is Real

    How Last Night’s Debate Proved the Dumbing Down of America is Real0

    Like many Americans, I tuned in last night to catch part of the first presidential debate. Part way through, I had a horrifying “the emperor has nothing on” moment when I realized that neither candidate seemed to know what he/she was talking about.  The content was so low on substance, that I decided to check

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  • How Junk Studies Are Used to Show Racism

    How Junk Studies Are Used to Show Racism0

    On March 23, 1989, a room full of reporters and scientists was buzzing in anticipation of an announcement of a breakthrough that, if it panned out, would propel humanity into a new era of unlimited pollution-free energy. The University of Utah’s vice president for research introduced two scientists, Dr. Stan Pons, and Dr. Martin Fleishman. The scientists

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  • How John Dewey ‘Deadened the Souls’ of America’s Children

    How John Dewey ‘Deadened the Souls’ of America’s Children0

    The story of American public education begins with Horace Mann. It was Mann who popularized the idea that American schools should teach all students, be non-sectarian, and tax-supported. A little less than a half-century passed between Mann’s death and the advent of John Dewey. That half-century may well be the most dynamic period of American History.

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  • How Johann Sebastian Bach Taught His Students

    How Johann Sebastian Bach Taught His Students0

    March 21st marks the birthday of one of the greatest composers of all time: Johann Sebastian Bach. Beyond being a great composer, Bach was also a great teacher who raised many pupils to be masters of their craft. According to Bach’s first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Bach’s success as a teacher resulted in part from

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